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you my mental health is taking a dip when I open tumblr on my laptop

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A Maya mosaic mask, made of jade and shell. Place of origin: Guatemala, c. 200–600 CE. Collection: Al Thani Collection, Qatar.

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1st picture: Greek temple

2nd picture: Roman temple

3rd picture: Etruscan temple

While Greek and Roman temples have similarities, you can see through these examples that Roman temples share more in common with Etruscan temples. The way they differ actually says a bit about differences in social culture between Rome and Greece. The Greek temple is a rectangle with stairs all around it, open to be approached from any side. It favours symmetry between the two long sides and the two short sides. It has a door on both short sides. Essentially it allowed for Greek people to sort of hang around the temple, bask on the stairs and do all kinds of communal activities around the temple.

Roman and Etruscan temples, by contrast, has a stair on just one of the sides, with just a wall on all the others. There's just one way to approach and enter these temples. This exemplifies how in Roman society temples were about temple activities like sacrifice, banking, accounting etc and less about the social activities around faith that Greeks associated with temples. The Greek temples seem more inviting to be approached, whereas the Roman is more imposing. While Roman society changed a lot across its history, service to the city and state were held as the height of manliness for long periods of history and the architecture of Roman temples very much reflect this. They represent a certain reverance to the State itself.

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Life lately

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I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.

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dude you gotta watch severance it's so exciting. in season 2 they go outside

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Enameled gold memento mori ring, Netherlands, circa 1620-1650

from The Rijksmuseum

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Ancient Roman Bronze Mice c.2nd century AD

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I’m gonna need all the power and inspo from studyblr in order to manage full time studies with a full time job

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does it still count as studyblr content when it’s professional development

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i love starting my morning this way! but i’m not ready to be finished with the fellowship ⭐️

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Exquisite bookshop in Warsaw. Filled to the brim with excellent books.

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me and my one notebook that if lost would completely throw my academic life into disarray

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27.05.2024 // a snapshot of last week. I have been incredibly busy with assignments and prepping for a month of study away.

last week, I —

prepared for a presentation on using postcolonial theory as one of the theoretical frameworks for my thesis and presented it. it went really well but I have so much work to do in order to narrow down the scope of my project

attended a conference and met some cool people

started working on my data management plan

worked on 2 essays, 1 blogpost

did some creative journalling

this week will be as chaotic because I'm travelling back home, which will mean disrupting whatever routine I had established. but at least, my routine at home is familiar.

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July 11th, 2024

It's hard to focus, especially as I have an allergic reaction in my eyes... However, the end is near. Two days left!

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spring flowers vs. finals despair showdown